From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:22:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] Add infrastructure for translating Git with gettext
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On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 01:55, Nazri Ramliy <ayiehere@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For Shell and Perl programs we rely on the git message
>> catalog not being available. That's a reasonable assumption since then
>> the message catalog won't be installed on the system during make
>> install.
>
> Would a "stale" message catalog (from a previous installation of git
> with gettext
> enabled, via make install) be deleted upon new installation (via make
> install) with
> NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease?

No. Just like we don't delete anything else that may exist on the
system from a previous "make install". The patch assumes that this is
the sort of thing package managers are for.

I didn't think it was worth it to guard against this case (by
e.g. cleaning out Shell/Perl support at make time).